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Speech-Based, Natural Language Conversational Recommender Systems
A while ago, I published a post about ReComment, a speech-based recommender system. Well, today I want to talk about SpeechRec: ReComment’s bigger, better, faster, stronger brother. Outline With...
View ArticlePassing the Torch
This fall, the Simon project will turn 9 years old. What started with a team of ambitious 17-year-olds and a school project, evolved over the course of more than 3000 commits and 4 major releases into...
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A Frank Look at Simon: Where To Go From Here
As I had previously announced, I am resigning my active positions in Simon and KDE Speech. As part of me handing over the project to an eventual successor, I had announced a day-long workshop on speech...
View ArticleOpen Source Dictation: Wrapping up
Ten days ago, I completed the dictation prototype – just in time for this years Akademy conference. Akademy At Akademy, I gave a talk about open source speech recognition and demoed the dictation...
View ArticleLaunching the Open Speech Initiative
Over the course of the summer, I have been working on bringing dictation capabilities to Simon. Now, I’m trying to build up a network of developers and researchers that work together to build high...
View ArticleReComment: A speech-based Recommender System
Most of you will probably know that as my “day job”, I am a student currently pursuing my master’s degree in computer science. This, of course, also entails some original research. In this blog post, I...
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Open Academy
Back in 2012, Facebook and Stanford University introduced their “Open Academy” program. The aim was and still is simple: Give University students an opportunity to work on real open source projects in...
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Conf.KDE.In 2014: A New Generation
About three weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend Conf.KDE.In at the DA-IICT in Ghandinagar, India. Thank you, KDE e.V. for making this possible. Much has already been said about the excellent...
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Simon on OS X
Let’s make this short and sweet: Starting today, the Simon development version officially supports Mac OS X (10.6+). If you want to try it out, you can find instructions on KDE’s userbase. Enjoy!
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Akademy 2014
Another year has come and gone and it was again time for KDE’s annual developers conference. Akademy 2014 took place in Brno, Czech republic and as always, it was an amazing event, attracting KDE...
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